Word: pounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unions claim have put an intolerable pinch on workingmen. Britain is mired in its longest period of high unemployment since World War II. Money is tight, and prices have crept upward since last November's devaluation. Britain depends heavily on imports, notably food, and the lowering of the pound's value relative to foreign currencies made imports more expensive. At the same time, to hold down the price of British goods abroad, the government, over bitter union protests, put through a bill limiting annual wage increases...
Observers thought they detected a promising new curve or two. Maybe those stories that she had actually gained a whole pound were true. Insisted Twiggy: "I'm exactly what I always was, 92 lbs." Whatever she weighs, the 19-year-old British model has made herself over so that she looks almost feminine. She has traded her body stocking and "all those flattening boyish things" for a real girl's bra, now wears more or less normal makeup instead of marking her eyes with heavy, horizontal pencil lines. She is letting her hair grow "as long...
...least one dog has achieved some notoriety in a specialty. Taddy, a 65-pound German shepherd bitch, has become expert at giving departing U.S. troopers-either home-or R & R-bound -a thorough sniff-over for hidden marijuana. She is so sharp that she recently nosed out two joints carefully tucked away in a man's camera that was inside his suitcase...
Dave Pottetti, a flashy sophomore from Pound Ridge, N.Y., was actively recruited by Penn, Yale, and Princeton before deciding on Harvard. "Peerless Pete" is the holder of the freshman two mile record and was beaten to the mile record by a fraction of a second by his roommate, Jon Enscoe. Pottetti is easily the loosest, most relaxed runner on the team. His long-range goal is to make the Olympic squal as a steeplechaser...
...pound Pete Varney, who was last year's top freshman rusher, has moved to offensive end and has been impressive enough in pre-season work-outs to start against Holy Cross. Yovicsin also shifted Fritz Reed, a 235-pound junior, from end to offensive tackle...